Adam O’Connor Rodriguez has served in editorial leadership roles for various national literary journals and now works as Senior Editor of Hawthorne Books in Portland, Oregon.

Peter Donahue is the author of two novels, Madison House and Clara and Merritt, and a collection of stories, The Cornelius Arms. He is co-editor of the anthologies Reading Seattle and Reading Portland. He writes the Retrospective Review column for Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History.

Michael Strelow is an English professor at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. He has published short stories, poetry, and nonfiction in a variety of literary magazines; two novels: The Greening of Ben Brown and Henry: A Novel of Beer and Love in the West; and a literary book, Kesey.

Loretta Stinson is the author of Little Green, a novel. She holds both an MS in Publishing and an MFA in Creative Writing from Portland State University in Portland, Oregon and she is a recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship in Fiction. She is currently writing her second book.

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the anti-memoir The Chronology of Water, the debut novel Dora: A Headcase, three books of short stories, and a critical book on war and narrative. She writes and swims in Oregon.